Praised by the distinguished Classical Guitar Magazine as “having the star potential to serve as inspiration for new generations of guitarists to come,” Beijing Guitar Duo made its New York debut in Carnegie Hall in 2010, launching an international concert career. Guitarists Meng Su and Yameng Wang, who are Beijing Guitar Duo, have performed around […]
Ephrat Asherie collaborates with Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer Arturo O’Farrill in the company’s newest creation, Shadow Cities. Bringing together Ephrat Asherie Dance’s exhilarating choreography that remixes and reconnects various street and club dance styles and an original composition featuring O’Farrill’s trademark Latin jazz sound, Shadow Cities explores what it means to be and […]
This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Pilobolus is a rebellious dance company. Since 1971, it has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries while being recognized […]
This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents and records new work, develops new audiences and educates the […]
The popular and multi-award-winning quintet Goitse was forged in the white-hot creative crucible of Limerick’s Irish World Academy. Named Live Ireland’s Traditional Group of the Year, Chicago Irish American News’ Group of the Year as well as winning the 2016 international Freiburger Leiter award in Germany, Goitse has become a leader of the new generation […]
This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Founded by pianist and composer Renee Rosnes, Artemis is a powerful ensemble of instrumental virtuosos. Along with Rosnes, the quintet includes trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Noriko Ueda and drummer Allison Miller. Fresh off its second consecutive win for Jazz Group of […]
One of his generation’s extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging innovation, individuality and drive — one “who refuses to set himself limits,” according to France’s Télérama. The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has recorded and performed around the world with […]
Since 2004 Circa has been at the frontier of a new vision of the circus arts — creating powerful works that challenge, thrill and delight. Featuring an ensemble of multi-skilled artists under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s award-winning works have been seen in 39 countries across six continents. At the Weis Center, they will […]
This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Hailed by the international press as “a shamanic orchestra for a technological age”, the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies (OIANT) brings to life long forgotten indigenous instruments. Its show Hidden Sounds of the Americas is a musical journey across the continent that […]
This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Twin Flames has garnered recognition and acclaim throughout Canada and abroad. Their exceptional talent and artistry have earned them 44 awards and nominations as well as being four-time Canadian Folk Music Award winners. Offering modern indigenous music in both English and their ancestral languages, […]
